The Federalism Reset Debate (Kurian Joseph Committee)

In February 2026 a committee appointed by the Tamil Nadu government and led by former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph submitted a sweeping blueprint for rebalancing Union-State relations. Its diagnosis: authority has migrated to the Centre not through any single dramatic act but by slow, cumulative accretion, and India now needs a deliberate constitutional reset. The report ranges across the Governor's office, GST voting, delimitation, language and even election machinery, and has become a reference point in the wider debate over how much fiscal and political room states really retain.